"Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse" is a song by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon from the 1995 album Mutineer. The song describes the singer getting ready to visit a débutantes ball in hell. Alongside Warren's other song Porcelain Monkey, Monkey Wash Donkey Rinse was included in the Austin Chronicles article "Monkeying Around". In the article, Melanie Haupt described the song by saying "As a religious icon, the monkey represents the devil and a whole slew of vices..."

"I wondered why popular music was so square. Because I had been reading Norman Mailer from the time I was 12 years old. I don't think it occurred to me that I was trying to make some kind of breakthrough in the popular song. It seemed to me then, and it seems to me now that, for the most part, there were some kind of restrictions on the subject matter of songs. And it was quite the opposite in every other art form."